Paper-package.



C. C. WILLIS.

PAPER PACKAGE.

Patented 0015.26, 1915.

`//////|vZU CHARLES C. WILLIS, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGrNOR TO .DENNSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER-PACKAGE.

Patented Cet. 26, 1915..

Application flied Februaly 2o, 1915. serial No. 9,487.

To` all whom t may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES C. WILLIS, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Framingham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper- Packages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a package of paper, and especially a package of paper towels or toilet paper, and consists in the novel form of folded and interlocked sheets by which the package is built up, and from which the sheets are to be withdrawn one at a time.

1n thel accompanying drawings which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the sheets when unfolded; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a single sheet when folded; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a package composed of a number of the sheets; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of several of the interlocked sheets, separated a little to show more clearly their relationship; and Fig. 5 is a vertical cross section of a cabinet containing a vpackage of said paper sheetsready for use.

The sheet of paper, which is 'preferably a little longer than it is broad, as shown in Fig. 1, is rst folded transversely on a middle line a, thus forming a doubled or two ply sheet. rllhe two ply sheet is then folded again along two lines, b and c, at right angles to the transverse fold a, to form three sections of substantially identical dimensions, namely, a middle section 2 and two end sections 1 and 8, one at each side of the middle section 2. rlFhe end section 1 is folded upwardly on line b, and the end section 3 is folded downwardly on line c.

rThe sheets thus folded are assembled and interlocked to form a package with each end section (1 or 3) extending between the opposite end section (3 or 1) and the middle section of the next adjacent sheet or sheets. The method of interlocking the end sections one with another is best shown in Figs. 4 and 5. When thus assembled the sheets form a package indicated as a whole by P. Preferably as shown in Fig. 3, the lowermost section 3 is folded upward along the side of the package and all the sheets are held together by suitable straps of paper or bands d, which may be readily broken or unfastened when the package is to be used.

A represents a cabinet or case in which the packages are stored for-use. The cabinet may be supported in any convenient way as by being fastened to a wall W. The front of the cabinet is hinged at H and in the bottom adjacent to the movable front wall is a slot B through which the downwardly folded section 3 of the lowermost sheet depends. A

C is a weighted follower resting on the package P for holding the stacked sheets flattened and preventing their disarrang'ement as they are pulled out from the bottom.

ln storing the package inthe cabinet for use, the front of the cabinet is swung open upon the hinge H and the package, in the condition shown in'Fig. 3, is placed within the cabinet with the side having the` upwardly folded section 3 toward the front. The straps or bands d are then broken, permitting the said upwardly folded section 3 to fall downward and depend from the slot B. The cabinet front is then swung back into place and the cabinet and package are ready for use.

.The user desiring to withdraw a sheet pulls the depending section 3 (Fig. 5) downward from the slot B, thereby drawing out the lowermost sheet and with it the downwardly folded ,section 3 of the next superposed sheet, which is interlocked with the upwardly folded section 1 of the sheet.

being withdrawn, and follows the latter outward through slot B, thus leaving section 3 of the bottom sheet always depending7 as shown in Fig. 5.

I claim:

1. A package of paper composed of a plurality of superposed sheets, a portion of the bottom sheet extending upward along the side of the package, and a band detachably to secure said sheets as a whole with sad upwardly extending sheet against said s1 e.

2. A package of paper composed of a yplurality of interlocked sheets, each sheet being folded to form three sections, namely,

a middle section' and two end sections, one

at each side of the middle section, one end section being` folded over upon the middle section in one direction and the other in the opposite direction and each end section extending between the opposite end section and the middle section of the next adjacent sheet or sheets, a' portion of the bottom sheet extending upward along the side of the paekage and a band detaehably to seeure `said sheets as-a whole with said upwardly extending sheet againstsaid side.

3. In Combination, a Cabinet having a movable front. a slot in its bottom adjacent to said movable front, and a package of paper in said cabinet composed of a plurality of superposed sheets, a portion of the bottonsheet extending upward along the. front side of the package. and a band detaehabl` to secure said sheets as a whole with said upwardl)v extending sheet against; said side.

Signed by me at Framingham, Massaehu- 15 setts, this 6th day of February, 1915.

v CHAS. C. WILLIS. itnesses WALDO A. RICH, Jip, ETgEL M. BEETLEsToNE. 

